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Calisto batesi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Calisto
Species:	C. batesi
Binomial name
Calisto batesi Michener, 1943

Calisto batesi is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Hispaniola.

The wingspan is 13–15 mm (0.51–0.59 in).

The larvae feed on various grasses.

Taxonomy

It was formerly treated as a subspecies of Calisto hysius.

References

1. "Calisto Hübner, 1823" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. "Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

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